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If you burn captions directly into your video in Descript, they become permanent — viewers can't turn them off. That's fine for social media clips, but for longer content hosted on Vimeo, Wistia, or YouTube, you typically want toggleable captions that viewers can enable or disable. The
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Looped media such as GIFs are difficult to wrangle in Descript. In this short article, I show you how to control exactly where they start and stop.
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If you use Descript for podcasting, video editing, or transcription, the recent Descript pricing changes that took effect on September 23rd, 2025 are worth paying attention to.
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You import audio or video into Descript and suddenly the volume is different from what you recorded. Maybe it's louder, maybe quieter — but it's definitely not what you expected. This is Descript's automatic volume leveling at work, and it catches a lot of people
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In a recent walk-through I published, I show a quick diagnostic and fix for when the Descript Export button is disabled.
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Here's an extensive guide on the new Descript timeline - an updated interface feature that has recently been rolled out to all Descript users. Whether you’ve just been thrust into the new environment with little warning or you’ve been experimenting with it for a few weeks,
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When editing a multi-speaker video in Descript, you may want to show each speaker's name on screen as they talk. Instead of manually placing text and timing it, Descript's Speaker text type automatically displays the correct name based on who is currently speaking in the transcript.
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You'll learn how to add and customize text elements, set up the typewriter effect using the latest animation features, and apply both in and out animations for a polished look.
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Descript packs a lot of tools into one editor — and if you're not sure what each one does, you might be missing features that could save you hours. In this walkthrough, I'll show you every major tool in Descript with real examples, so you can understand
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Descript sometimes produces transcripts that mix English with other languages (like German), even though the audio is clearly in one language.
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When editing in Descript, you have the option to burn captions directly onto your video. But should you use that feature for YouTube uploads? The short answer: usually, no. While you can burn in captions in Descript, uploading them separately to YouTube gives you and your viewers far more flexibility.
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If you are looking to manage caption (or other object or layer) visibility in your Descript video for specific portions, this tutorial is for you. Whether you're creating educational content, presentations, or social media videos, there are times when you need to temporarily hide captions to prevent text